The size of new passenger ships has increased tremendously during the past decades. This trend is expected to continue, as bigger size means new opportunities and economics of scale.
The overall aim of the project is to increase the knowledge of dangerous ship conditions, how to keep away from them and how to manoeuvre the ship in the best way under these circumstances.
HTA is an EU FP6 (EU Framework Programme 6) Network of Excellence and the goal is to develop a formal and lasting structure to co-ordinate the definition and introduction of novel measurement, observa
The strategic objective of SMOOTH is to apply air-lubrication to ships and to provide new products in terms of required control- and paint systems to introduce air-lubricated ships, regardless whether
The goal of VIRTUE is to improve and integrate state-of-the-art CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) tools in a comprehensive simulation environment of ship performance at sea aiming to complement model
The main goals of the project are to develop a risk analytical framework and toolbox, for evaluating the risk to human, environment and assets of ship collisions and groundings.